Abstract

RUIZ MARTIN DEL CAMPO, Emma Guillermina. Psychoanalysis and knowledge on subjectivity. Espiral (Guadalaj.) [online]. 2009, vol.16, n.46, pp.37-58. ISSN 1665-0565.

Upon distancing himself from the traditional methods of medicine and introducing listening to his patients suffering from hysterical symptoms in order to understand their condition, Freud carried out an epistemological rupture that implied the introduction of the subjective in the field of knowledge. He himself anticipated the value that inquiring about the unconscious would have as a tool at the service of social sciences. Here, we set out questions such as the relation among the knowledge that is considered as scientific and irrationality and the inexhaustible of our own ignorance. By means of two examples, we show the potential that the researcher's commitment with everything he is in his work represents in the quest for knowledge, that is to say, the use of his own subjectivity as a research tool.

Keywords : Epistemologic break; subjectivity; unconscious; knowledge; ignorance.

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